The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds